mojoman wrote on Oct 21^st, 2010 at 6:52pm:


   

Paranoid Android wrote on Oct 21^st, 2010 at 8:02pm:


Butterface ? Nah.

Ticket prices are so far out of hand it's got to the point of an almost ridiculousness. $200.00 to see a concert??? Just for simply a seat? No hotel for the weekend or back-stage passes to meet the band???


The writer of this short article tells only half of the truth. Sure, today concerts are an organized business. A corporate affair.  Yes stages, techs, crews are larger than they were thirty years ago... (for the big acts anyway). Sure there are hotel accommodations to be made for permanent crew and all that BUT...

We are not paying fifteen dollars a ticket anymore either. As well there is corporate sponsorship that helps out today where as in the seventies there was not.  

No matter how you look at it ...they are over priced incredibly. I can see paying $50.00 maybe $60.00 for real good seating but that's it....and yes, even I have paid up to $150.00 to see The Stones. This bull about paying $120.00...$130.00...$150.00 for prime seats is non-sense. Voodoo Lounge had a great concept. :

25.00 for upper level. $40.00 for better seats and like 60.00-65.00 for prime seating ... everyone had a chance to see the show. That was a large scale tour, with corporate sponsorship, broke records...the whole nine ...yet it was affordable by all. There was pricey seats and cheap seats. The pricey seats were simply only just that though...."pricey". ..not totally ball backbreakingly out of hand. As well there were a few cheaper options.

Why don't they follow that model to it's entirety anymore? I suppose the main reason is they simply don't have to with large acts. Nine times out of ten the tour does well....because people pay it.

Concerts make loads of money and all the talk about more over-head today and higher scale staging is quite true. HOWEVER there is sponsorship, renting vs. buying equipment (in the older days you had to buy much of it and sell it after....now you can rent many items/equipment) and other factors that cut into things yet the tickets keep going up and up till now it is totally out of hand.

All the overhead does not compensate for how high ticket prices have become simply because the whole business has changed to the point that while overhead and staging costs much, much more than before still the major concert tour has money coming in from different angles as where before it didn't has near as many. It's a shame. We are getting ripped every major tour. I am not expecting to pay $20.00 anymore like it is 1981. I realize prices go up. But paying the amount to that basically of a car payment ($200.00) is absurd. It is one night. A "concert". A good time, a show. A two/two and a half hour ordeal.... It should be kept in perspective to the outrageous prices.


Ian

The long-term "excuse" for us had always been long distance & the value of our dollar against the U.S. Now that our dollar is more or less equal (and in a few weeks, will probably be worth more!) it will be interesting to see if any major acts flock here next year. Ac/Dc raked it in earlier this year in their "welcome home" shows. U2 is up soon. And they are not charging alot. But... i wouldnt see them unless my tix were free. I aint a fan & i despise "in the round" shows.

Major acts like Madonna & McCartney baulked at past Aussie tours because our dollar was pretty low & they'd have to charge astronimical prices to tix. Madonna has only toured here once & McCartney bailed a few years ago because ticket sales were poor (not many pensioners could afford to see him). Though the fool blamed the Bali bombing for his cancelling!

So, all being good, is there a chance that the Stones might START a tour here?

I for one cannot see why not. Get the machine oiled up and treat us to make up for the 22 years they didnt come here.

" As I told you in another post, the most expensive ticket to Macca (sold out) is USD 1.200.- in a 60.000 people stadium here in Buenos Aires.
It's a record price never seen before ! "

BEST MACCA YET !!!!!!!!


www.Maccareport.com

gimmekeef wrote on Oct 22^nd, 2010 at 12:56pm:

You will not be greeted.

left shoe shuffle wrote on Oct 22^nd, 2010 at 12:05am:


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Nice input. However I said "9" out of ten times the major acts clean house. It's true. If you've looked at ticket prices over the past twelve years 90% of those major tours, with high ticket prices, were successes. It can certainly be done quite easily and promoters know that. It is more than likely if things are managed properly they "should" get away with it.... promoters realize they get away with it "most" of the time. Not always (especially within the past three years due to the economy)...but the majority of the time the major acts make a load of money. Sure...maybe not as much as The Stones but they make their millions and the tour is a success. This is what I was saying.

I realize certain bands refuse corporate sponsorship. This adds to what I was saying. By bands not having corporate sponsorship and pulling off successful tours is more testimony to our initial analysis of us being raked.


Ian

I think another reason ticket prices went up is because the bands arent making as much money thru record sales anymore, due to the internet, so they have to make their majority of income from touring.